Conveners
L004: Morning Plenary Session (Chair: Jessica Rosenberg)
- Hakeem Oluseyi (George Mason University)
L004: Afternoon Plenary Session (Chair: James Freericks)
- William Phillips (NIST & University of Maryland)
Every student carries an untold story—and every educator holds the power to change its trajectory. In this talk, astrophysicist and science communicator Hakeem Oluseyi reflects on the teachers and mentors who altered the course of his life, from elementary school through graduate studies, and how their belief, curiosity, and presence transformed possibility into reality. Drawing from his own...
At the dawn of the 20th century physicists began to understand that the usual classical physics could not explain important features of nature, and the “Old Quantum Theory” emerged as an admittedly imperfect mix of classical physics with quantum ideas. Then, 100 years ago, a revolution replaced classical physics with a new mechanics, that of Heisenberg, Schroedinger, Dirac, and others, which...
